Niagara Falls--Gibbes--home movies

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Niagara Falls--Gibbes--home movies

Young Eugenia Gibbes confronts the mighty torrent with Eugenia F. Salley Gibbes. Home movie footage of Niagara Falls. Many shots of the waterfall and some shots of two women chatting in front of the falls. (Gibbes 12)

This excerpt is from a documentary about the Potala Palace, which is located in Lhasa, on the Dmar-Po-Ri mountain in the capital city of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It was built in 7th century A.D., and is very important to the Tibetan people.

This film shows the training routine of the Bayi Women Light Motorcycle Team as they perform complicated manouevres on their bikes. A film by Jie Shen for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio in Beijing.

In 1974, Deng Xiaoping led a delegation to the United Nations in New York. This clip shows the celebration in Tiananmen Square that preceded the journey. Major leaders, including Zhou Enlai and Jiang Qing, follow then First-Vice Premiere Deng.

A short excerpt of a documentary with English narration about Catholicism in China. This clip shows a cathedral and the headstones of Catholic Missionaries in Beijing, as well as the tomb of a Catholic scientist from the Ming Dynasty in Shanghai.

In this classic parable, a snipe and a clam fight over a fish. After a long struggle, they both get caught by the fisherman, who has been waiting for his chance. This film won the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Short Film in 1984.

12-year old Patricia Watkins puts 16 canines through their paces. With the help of a steadfast chihuahua, the world's youngest professional dog trainer later reminds us to "Be Kind To Animals . . . and newsreel editors."

Released by the government in 1944, this film was incorporated into Volume 26 Issue 92 of the Movietone Newsreel. Note that the newsreel editors dubbed the Movietone musical score over this government film.

Fox Movietone News cameraman Al Brick was in the harbor the morning of the attack and captured Fox's first scoop of the war. Censorship prevented these images from being shown to the public until December 1942.

This short piece of footage from WWII shows the Canadian airmen from Squadron 617, who contributed to Operation Chastise, also known as the 'Dam Busters' Raid, and led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, being honored at Buckingham Palace with Distinguishe...

This curated sequence of moving images draws upon FTNR S2, MVTN 52-200 and MVTN 52-201. It collects together images shot in Normandy on June 6, 1944 by U. S. Army Signal Corps, British Army Film and Photographic Units and Canadian Film Photographic ...

When Georgia Tech defeated California in the 1929 Rose Bowl, football player "Stumpy" Thompson received bear Bruin as a gift. Cameraman Frank Lamb recorded their life on campus but was not allowed to film interiors.

Melville Louisiana rests along the Atchafalaya River just west of the Morganza spillway. During the Great Flood of 1927, Melville was underwater for months. This edited Fox News footage was probably shot in July or August of 1927 and shows the main...

The 10th Calvary (also known as the "Buffalo Soldiers") based in Fort Huachuca, Arizona played an important role defending the United State's southern border during a series of military actions in the early 20th century. The Fox Film Corporation pro...

A native of St. Louis, MO, Josephine Baker took Europe by storm in 1925 and remained one of its most celebrated artists until the outbreak of war. These newsreel outtakes were shot by famed illustrator Mac-Djorski on her visit to Volendam, North Hol...

Charity Event – Mrs James Walker, wife of the Mayor of New York City, Comedian Charlie Chaplin and Manhattan Borough President Julius Miller, all ride in a stagecoach from City Hall to the 69th Armory to promote ‘Slippery Gulch’ for the Madonna...

Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini arrives in Tripoli to review the state of Italy's Libyan colony. In the city he is given a Caesar’s welcome, while in the desert he is honored by Bedouins with the gift a horse.

In Fox paperwork from 1926, the star of this clip is cameraman Anderson's son (four), who delivers a box of film to the then unidentified pilot. In retrospect, it seems noteworthy that the pilot is Charles Lindbergh. Many more such discoveries await ...

A little girl reading a story book falls asleep and dreams that the Easter nest she has just built has come to life. To little Alice came the true story of Humpty Dumpty and his great fall. All the King of England's Horse Guards could not put Humpty ...

In this example from the the first year of Fox News, filmmakers team up with Cho Cho the Clown to provide public health education for children. Cho Cho demonstrates taking a bath with an imaginary tub.

Austrian models show the latest fashions in spring clothes in Vienna in 1931. Various scenes are shown of women modeling gloves and gowns to the strains of a waltz. Spring gloves are presented in a musical production number with chorus girls.

Mrs. Mary Rex Thompson, a widow with two children, receives the 1,000,000th monthly insurance benefit. Audiences in 1944 could have seen the edited story in volume 26 issue no. 99 of the Fox Movietone newsreel.

Penicillin is mass produced for military use in this newsreel story released in vol. 26 issue no. 90 of the Fox Movietone news. In less than five years penicillin went from an experimental treatment to a mass produced "miracle drug." 300 billion un...

Fox Movietone Crew #18 (Mayell and Heise) spent about one year documenting the people and places of China, Japan, and Formosa. The online clip features only a few of the over 14 minutes of footage taken on February 15, 1930 in Formosa. Although th...

This clip highlights the move of women into the commercial agriculture sector during the war. Virginia Governor Colgate W. Darden and First Lady Constance Darden roll up their sleeves and help harvest the state's important tobacco crop.

This film clip shows bombers as they set out from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to bomb Tokyo and other Japanese cities, in the first raid in response to Pearl Harbor four months before. Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle
standing with...

The young women of Richmond are helping out the war effort by collecting metal scrap. When the crew stops by the Governor’s mansion, Virginia Governor Colgate W. Darden, Jr. and First Lady Constance Darden pitch in and do their bit.

In these newsreel outtakes, Czechoslovakia's founding President, Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk predicts that in the future we will be able "to see and hear in the distance without any wire." The newsreel story screened to audiences did not contain th...

Ostensibly a story about new metal scaffolding, this film shows St. Paul’s Chapel in lower Manhattan undergoing renovations. From the top of the church spire, the camera looks west across the World Trade Center site. Unlike today, St. Paul’s lack...

This excerpt includes both the featured news story and the outtakes from this piece about the drought in the midwest in 1934. It was this drought that led to the dustbowl on the Great Plains and one of the worst ecological disasters to hit North Amer

In 1928, the 1st Congressional District of Illinois elected Oscar De Priest to the House of Representatives, making him the first African-American elected to Congress in 28 years. He served three terms. These sound Fox Movietone News outtakes give ...

on June 20th 1932 Amelia Earhart receives a reception from the City of New York and a Cross of Honor from the US Flag Association's Women's Council chairwoman, after returning from France from her solo transatlantic flight.

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) is one of the nation's oldest Historically Black Colleges and Universities and counts Booker T. Washington among its distinguished alumni. Founded during the Civil War, the institute...

Bascom Lamar Lunsford and others perform "Doggett Gap" on the porch of an old North Carolina homestead. 1928 was the year of the first Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville; the festival was founded by Lunsford.

Famed playwright George Bernard Shaw speaks to Movietone News for the first time. Feigning to be surprised by the crew and delighting in the opportunity to speak to a theater audience directly, Shaw performs, among other things, his famed impression...

Derby day at Churchill downs in 1928 was a rainy and muddy day from the looks of the track. This film clip shows the twin spires of Churchill Downs as the horses ride out ready for the race. Shots of the crowds under umbrellas in the grandstand, who ...

Boxing legend and Beaufort native Joe Frazier speaks about change in South Carolina. Frazier had appeared before the South Carolina State Legislature after the Senate passed a resolution creating Joe Frazier Day. Only three African Americans served i...

"I decided to stick with love..." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. articulates his opposition to black militancy as well as white supremacy. The clip begins with film (silent) of Dr. King's arrival at the Charleston airport.

Claudia Lea Phelps and her sister Eleanor chronicle the 1923 voyage of the Laconia, the first round-the-world by steamship package tour organized by American Express. Examine Eleanor's diary of the trip here....

Approaching Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, circa 1946
This film shows a troop ship entering the bay under the Golden Gate bridge at sunrise, shot by Dr. Daniel Kavadas returning from overseas. Various shots of the city of San Francisco from a va...

Dr. Grace Jordan McFadden interviews Judge Matthew J. Perry in this excerpt from the series Quest for Human / Civil Rights--Oral Recollections of Black South Carolinians, produced by the University of South Carolina.

Selections from home movies of a family trip to the beach featuring a prodigious crab harvest. South Carolina Lowcountry. Gibbes family going crabbing during their vacation to the beach on Pawley’s Island. Shots of the family on boats and in the ma...

Footage taken at Opening Day on 04/24/1930 at Owens Field in Columbia, South Carolina. Medium and long shots of airplanes taking off. Shot of the Gibbes family. Shots taken from passenger seat in an airplane, aerial views of Columbia, including the C...

Young Eugenia Gibbes confronts the mighty torrent with Eugenia F. Salley Gibbes. Home movie footage of Niagara Falls. Many shots of the waterfall and some shots of two women chatting in front of the falls. (Gibbes 12)

Home movie footage of a Maypole parade, assumed to be taken in the year 1928 according to film’s edge code. Children in costumes marching, dancing, and playing. Children dancing around the Maypole. Footage taken on Melton field. (Gibbes 6)

According to family legend, this houseguest fell off the table while dancing. To aid her recovery, her bed was rolled out into the sunshine. Estimated to be from 1935 based on year from edge code. Footage features a woman lying in bed outside on a su...

Irvin Belser and Beverly Herbert enjoy Hunting Island. Views of the tombstone of W. P. Gibbes in Beaufort. Footage of the beach and men hunting on the coast, lots of palmetto trees. Coastal neighborhood. Shots of a graveyard and church exterior. (Gi...

Various footage of football, picnic on a farm, and hunting trip. Football game possibly University of South Carolina at Melton Field. Picnic at unknown farm. Shot of a small dog and of birds in the sky. Shots of dogs, birds flying and piles of dead b...

Fishing for mullet on a commercial boat. African-American men pulling fish nets out of the ocean. Shows a man pulling sharks out of the large collection of fish. Footage estimated to be between 1936 and 1939. (Gibbes 19)

Various shots of a day spent hunting doves. Features a large house, hunting dogs (spaniels), and the swamp. Plantation house surrounded by oak trees filled with Spanish moss. A lake. The swamp. Shot of a woman with a cane walking slowly down the stai...

This footage follows the Gibbes family from Greene Street in Columbia to Pawley’s Island on the South Carolina coast. Shots of people wearing bathing suits. Family playing in the ocean. Shots of seagulls, the waves, and a woman walking along the ...